How ludicrous can the war on terror get? Now it seems that you’re not safe even when you’re cruising around the electronic social scene. The pentagon has now declared that online games are “creating security vulnerabilities by opening novel ways for terrorists and criminals to move money, organize and conduct corporate espionage.”
The Washington Post names Second Life as a prominent organization and goes on to explain for those over the age of virtual comprehension exactly what the degenerates who use Second Life are doing. Maybe it’s just me, but I think that if terrorists spent time chatting and having sex in MMORGs they would have less time for plotting and propogating.
“Nascent economies have sprung to life in these 3-D worlds, complete with currency, banks and shopping malls.”
Actually, Second Life has recently placed a worldwide ban on banking. So what if Achmed wants to change his rubles into Linden dollars and go get the latest Gucci purse for his stripper alter-ego? I suppose he might hack into the Gucci website and copy their blueprints for a land mine.
“Unfortunately, what started out as a benign environment where people would congregate to share information or explore fantasy worlds is now offering the opportunity for religious/political extremists to recruit, rehearse, transfer money, and ultimately engage in information warfare or worse with impunity.”
Actually, the Internet was invented for military purposes. Also, what happened to free speech? Whichever bonehead released this spicy information to the press is simply supporting and spreading the police state propaganda that keeps people jumping up and down with hatred of the “enemy”- whoever that might be. What is information warfare? That speechwriter should get an Opacity Award.
“The CIA has created a few virtual islands for internal use, such as training and unclassified meetings, government officials said.”
So let me get this straight. The CIA is a government agency that employs people with my tax dollars to spy on me by playing a video game.
“Criminals, terrorists and others have used Web sites for more than a decade to recruit, operate scams and trade pornography.”
If this little diatribe doesn’t clearly emphasize a need for an independent, non-partisan news source, it’s hard to imagine any more convincing case. I might actually remember that the Washington Post’s official stance is that up until Wednesday, February 6, the date of this article’s publication, the writers and/or editors were unaware of the Internet’s pornography industry.
The article concludes with broad sweeping statements about the Internet’s capability for the transfer of secret messages and the clandestine training and incitation of terrorists and terrorism. Because the Pentagon has to get their dirty little fingers in everything, even people trying to waste away comfortably playing a really poor video game are now, as usual, under Sauron’s eye again.
Off topic - - - Why did an ex-CIA agent with so much exposure, credibility and potential to change things in this country for the good, decide to do what he did w/ the Michelle Obama thing? I was in your corner, but this whole thing was wrong.
Posted by: Al Swearengen | July 06, 2008 at 10:51 AM
Now that we're on YOUR topic - what do you see wrong in that? Checking out your diseased site 'dead issue' - OMG. Ostensibly you lack the intellect and intelligence to deal with such matters. You might refer to the Agatha Christie novel Murder on the Orient Express as an excellent dissertation about the difference between what one is told and what one knows is true. But take the movie version as that will impose less of a strain on your wobbly mind.
Throughout the MO controversy Larry has been very precise in his language. Now it is possible a good friend 'played' him but it is also probable Larry would have seen through this. You may question Larry's opting to reveal what he was told but you must simultaneously accept his presumption people would show more discretion than you.
I see a Miles Brennan of Pershing Boulevard in lovely Kenosha Wisconsin as the proprietor of that website and of course I am duly impressed. With 'A&S Systems Inc.' even more so: they're not even found on Google.
Finally it's rather obvious to everyone how advanced your disease is when you follow Larry all the way here to persecute him. The gene pool cleaner is on his way and you would seem to be on the way out.
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